Word: weekday
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Those who see beyond the Toyota-led processions in the courtyard of St. Peter's and the quotable remarks made in half a dozen languages at his thronged weekday audiences may well find that the present occupant of the Chair of St. Peter has fully as much in common with Gregory VII and Boniface VIII as with Leo XIII and John XXIII. His coming to Boston has stimulated a debate, not so much about the Pope or his church but rather over who will foot the bill for his visit. (Presumably when Billy Graham blows into town someone other than...
...each weekday and an hour on Saturdays and Sundays (at 5 p.m. in most places), All Things Considered's bouillabaisse of hard news, light features and background reports is heard on 200 noncommercial stations. The show is the flagship program of National Public Radio, the aural counterpart of TV's Public Broadcasting Service. It is also the ear-throb of legions of listeners-2 million flip the dial to it at least one day a week, and some 150 send mash notes weekly...
Across the nation gas stations are closing on Sunday or shortening weekday hours to conserve supplies so that they will have a few drops left to sell at the end of the month. In the Pittsburgh area, some 60% of all stations now close on Sunday; in Madison, N.J., some stations are selling gas from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m., closing until 4 p.m., then reopening till 7 p.m. To date, however, most drivers have simply grumbled and driven a bit farther to find an open station...
...most depressing spectacles on television is Erma Bombeck's regular weekday stint on ABC's Good Morning America. From her humble beginnings as a syndicated newspaper humor columnist, Bombeck has evolved into a TV personality of the most plastic sort. She delivers her one-liners in a strident vibrato; she luxuriates in canned laughter as though it were the praise of a Nobel Prize jury. Bombeck used to satirize the vulgarity of American suburbia; now she epitomizes...
...nation's largest rail system, Conrail has annual revenues of $3.3 billion, 90,000 employees and 34,000 miles of track crisscrossing the Northeast, stretching west to Missouri and north to Canada. Though most of its business is freight, it also carries 360,000 commuters each weekday to New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Chicago. For all these superlatives, Conrail continues to hemorrhage money because its equipment was in worse shape and its labor force was more featherbedded than almost anyone in Washington had suspected...